Wednesday, March 10, 2010

All Kids Should Experience Country Life

This morning I received an e-mail asking for help to spread the word about a worthy project. Here it is, in part:

As someone who is passionate about animals I thought you and the readers of Marte's Doggie Blog would be interested in helping children who also love animals.

The Fresh Air Fund is in need of host families for this summer. Host families are volunteers who open their hearts and homes to children from the city to give a fresh air experience that these disadvantaged children never forget. Even if you can't host a child yourself, just posting a mention of this program would be helpful to spread the word.

I've been to the Fresh Air Fund web site and do think it's something that you might be interested in. If nothing else, you can Tweet about it and help spread the word.

Here's a short video about the program...

1 comment:

chessiakelley said...

Hi Marte,

Thanks so much for posting my letter! I thought I would clarify the geographical restrictions since you are based in Idaho. the program primarily serves kids in NYC and host states are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New Jersey, and Southern Ontario in Canada. If you know anyone who lives there, please let them know, and if you ARE someone who lives there, we would be honored if you considered hosting. Thank you!

Sara